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 * Hello Shengnan and Ice. I'm excited to get to know you. My name is Matthew John Sabey. I am 17 years old and a junior in high school. I'm the fourth son in my family. I have a younger sister and a younger brother. You met them when we visited your school last May. We loved being with you.

My favorite holiday has always been Christmas. When I was a little child we once had Christmas at our grandparents' house in Utah, so after a drive which seemed like forever (9 hours) we got there. We always drove over the mountains to get to Utah. I always loved Utah, hanging with cousins and most of all having family time. This vacation was awesome, then Christmas morning came and I got up at 4 am and mom and dad made me stay in my bedroom for a whole hour before I could wake up the rest of my family. When I finally was alowwed to get up, I ran as fast as I could to wake my family up. We rushed to find our hidden stockings, mine was in a chair. (My father often hid things for us to find--birthday presents and even Christmas stockings sometimes.) I hurried to stuff the chocolate from my stocking in my mouth. There was a cool gift in the stocking and some nuts. When my little brother opened his stocking the first thing he pulled out was a nut, he screamed joyfully, “a nut, Santa gave me a nut!” Then we got to open our presents under the tree. Josh and I got boxes of lincoln logs, we loved them. Then for the grand fanale we got to open our homemade presants. My father works with each of us to make a present for someone else in our family by hand. My older brothers got a jousting set, a log on two cinder blocks, and two sitcks padded, with foam footballs on the ends. It was a game. Two people would stand on the log with the padded sticks and try to be the first to knock the other off. Then finally I got to open my present. I got lincoln log cannons, and rubber band guns, and catapults for lincoln logs.



We were able to have full family lincoln log wars, where we would build our forts and have equal men on each side, we would play last man standing on each side. It was the funnest game ever! Obviolsly you can see why I love Christmas!


 * This picture was taken in July last year.

Hello, I ****＇m Shengnan, and my family name is Zhang. ( ****张胜 ****楠) I'm a 20-year-old girl. I grew up in the city with my parents and grandparents. Thanks for sharing your story with me. Now I＇ll describe my childhood to you. Hope you＇ll enjoy it. **   ||    column 3    || Thanks. I had a wonderful christmas! I got a soccer goal in my back yard for christmas. The only thing wrong with your grammer is that you are in the preasent tense when you should be in the past tense. But I still mess up with tenses alot. I grew up with my family, and lived in Colorado my whole life. I love it here, the weather is so unpredictable, and we have the best skinig in the world. The mountians are so fun to hike in. My during my childhood I also loved playing something like role play, but we would act as dinosaurs, or as people with supper powers, and would kill an entire maginary army. I don't know how to write chinese characters on here so i will write in pin yin, ni shi bu shi wode peng you? Ni shehuan sheme zai jong gou li? I to also have lots of grammatical errors, so you should help me to.
 * Before went to school, I lived in my grandparents home. There are lots of children have the same age as me. We often play games together. My favorite game is roll play and I like to act teacher. We regard the wall as blackboard, the stick as ferule. There filled with countless laughter when we are together. It ****＇s really a marvelous time in my life. Everyday we play games till parents call our names loudly at the door to remind us of having supper. Then we say goodbye to each other and make an appointment that come out tomorrow. **
 * I always have some grammar mistakes in my writing, so please let me know if I have something wrong. **
 * Wish you a wonderful Christmas this year! ** ||   column 2

hello，Ice and Matt S! Now we're on vocation,and Internet is not available in my hometown. Sorry for it that I can't write to you during this period. --Shengnan

It is ok. I am excited to hear about your vacation. Where were you and what did you do? Do you have face book?